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epibiontic

epibiontic adjective: that lives on the surface of another organism.

Adjective

epibiontic (not comparable)

  1. That lives on the surface of another organism

Origin of epibiontic

From epi- + -biontic.

Questions about epibiontic

What does epibiontic mean?
Epibiontic means that lives on the surface of another organism.
What part of speech is epibiontic?
Epibiontic is an adjective.

Words near epibiontic in the dictionary

  1. epibenthonic
  2. epibenthos
  3. epiberberine
  4. epibetulinic acid
  5. epibiont
  6. epibiontic
  7. epibiontically
  8. epibionts
  9. epibionty
  10. epibioses
  11. epibiosis

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